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会館
かいかん
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
meeting hall, assembly hall
Kaikan is from Chinese 會館 (huìguǎn), analyzable as 会 (kai, “meeting; gathering”) plus 館 (kan, “public building”).
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In a sentence
会館は聴衆でいっぱいになった。
The audience filled the hall.
その日に限って子供たちは会館に入ることを許される。
The hall allows children in only on that day.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From Chinese 會館 /会馆 (huìguǎn). Analyzable as 会 (kai, “meeting; gathering”) + 館 (kan, “public building”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 会館 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.